Startup incubators and accelerators
Across our footprint, we are passionate about powering innovation and supporting entrepreneurs in all stages of growth and development. We support a range of initiatives mostly focused on encouraging entrepreneurial youths and the community in many of the markets across our global footprint.
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Tunisia
Ooredoo’s Start-Up Factory, is an end-to-end incubator and support programme for young developers looking to create ICT-related start-ups.
ACT Ooredoo Tunisia
ACT with Ooredoo is a contest designed to select the best non-profit project through the vote of internet users. The platform is meant to help the local in Tunisia to promote their projects and collect likes to win the prize. The idea is to transform useless "likes" on Facebook into a good deed to make a change in the community.
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Kuwait
The Ooredoo Kuwait volunteering programme attracts hundreds of young people and helps train them before matching them with volunteering opportunities in Kuwait.
The award-winning programme won recognition from the Kuwait Ministry of State for Youth Affairs and volunteers from the programme work on a broad spectrum of projects across Kuwait and even outside in refugee camps in Jordan. Initiatives included managing meal distribution of 17,000 iftar meals throughout the month of Ramadan, in distribution centres outside its head office and in an iftar tent.
Algeria
iStart has supported 20 start-ups and enabled Ooredoo Algeria’s Training Institute to provide training to 6,000 students at 15 universities and business schools. iStart supports a range of initiatives, including Algeria’s first mobile app store, “The GeekFtour” developer summit, and developer training.
“Oobarmijoo” (which in Arabic means “I develop”), supports mobile app development under the label "Made in Algeria” has had more than 5,000 participants.
Indonesia
Indosat runs one of Indonesia's most prominent and oldest tech competitions and hackathons, Indosat Ooredoo Wireless Innovation Contest (IWIC) which has produced more than 2,000 apps over the years.
The IWIC aims to create a pool of digital talent in the country and nurture the young generation as future “technopreneurs”. In 2016, IWIC raised the programme to a global scale, giving the opportunity for Indonesia’s young entrepreneurs to compete with talent from other countries. The programme has inspired more than 3,500 young digital talents with more than 750 female participants.
Indosat Ooredoo also supported and inspired the young to create innovative technology and digital applications through its Ideabox initiative. Ideabox has so far seen two of its graduates valued at over US$1million.
In partnership with Softbank, Indosat and Ooredoo operate the SB ISAT Fund which invests to help start-ups progress through growth stage to mature stage development.
Qatar
Ooredoo and the Applied Innovation Institute launched the Arab Mobile App Challenge in 2013 to encourage young people across the region to develop their own Apps. In 2014 the initiative welcomed nearly 700 regional teams from 14 Arab countries.
To help young entrepreneurs in Qatar with great ideas for digital businesses, Ooredoo has teamed with the Qatar Business Incubation Center (QBIC) to help support participants businesses grow and develop.
Ooredoo Maldives
Ooredoo Maldives donated ‘Ooredoo Smart Campus’, a cloud-based education solution powered by Microsoft in Education, to Maldives Polytechnic, a local educational institute that provides free courses to students.
Smart Campus provides an end-to-end solution for distance education and has enabled Maldives Polytechnic to offer free technical and vocational education to young people.